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General Resources



  • Fact Monster: A tween destination for homework help and facts on thousands of subjects, including sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education, math, and health. Highly ranked in search engines, Fact Monster contains an encyclopedia, almanacs, games, quizzes, research tools, holiday features, lots of self-made microsites for books, and more.
  • HippoCampus: HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.
  • BBC’s DIY build a catapult. The site lets students explore the history behind the catapult, learn how to build one step by step and then discover principles of velocity, acceleration, force, distance and math.
  • Planet Quest Alien Safari is an interactive exploration adventure that encourages students to click on “life zones” around the world to find bizarre and extreme organisms that live on Earth. Students will also learn about what the extreme organisms reveal about finding life in space. As students explore they will learn about organisms that can live without sunlight, those with the highest radiation dose, those that are the most acidic, those that live the furthest underground, those with the strangest habitat and those that are the hottest. Students click on a life zone on the 3D Earth to begin a video introduction to the organism.

Biology

  • Biology Corner: The Biology Corner is a resource site for biology and science teachers. It contains a variety of lessons, quizzes, labs, web quests, and information on science topics. You can find lessons related to biology topics in the links listed under “topics” on the sidebar. Topics include: Ecology, Genetics, Anatomy, Cells, Scientific Method, and Evolution.

Earth Science

  • WICKED Science interactives: help students understand the earth- what it looks like, what it is made of, and how it works. Students can explore the earth’s surface, examine features of the earth’s crust, explore the rock cycle, discover what the earth is made of in a lab, learn about heat and pressure, and look at different descriptions of the earth.

Space/NASA

  • NASA’s 50th Anniversary Flash feature: This interactive timeline highlights each decade in our space program from 1950 to 2000.
  • Solar System Scope is a 3D real-time look at celestial positions with planets and constellations in the night sky. Students can adjust planet and moon settings, star and constellation settings, earth observatory settings and time settings. View the solar system from a heliocentric, geocentric or panoramic view.
  • NASA @ Home and City: students get to explore 3D environments where they discover common household and city items that have roots in space exploration. Students can click on various objects in the house or city to learn more about how space travel impacted the items creation or use. Each item has a brief description and a short video included.
  • Moon Zoo: gives students the chance to study the lunar surface while contributing to real science. Students can get an up close and personal view of the moon viewing images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Moon Zoo’s mission is to provide detailed crater counts for as much of the moon’s surface as possible. Your students can take part in actually helping to count and map out craters and features of the lunar surface. Students can identify craters with boulders around the rim to help map the regolith across the surface of the moon.

iPad/iPod Apps

  • 3D Brain:Use your touch screen to rotate and zoom around 29 interactive structures. Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness.
  • The Elements: A Visual Exploration lets you experience the beauty and fascination of the building blocks of our universe in a way you've never seen before.
  • Period Table of the Elements: You can select a chemical attribute and have the entire chart color coded to plainly show how the different elements vary with regard to the selected trait.
  • NASA: The first official NASA App invites you to discover a wealth of NASA information
  • GoSkyWatch: Displays the sky view at the correct orientation when held at any angle not just landscape or portrait. Simple operation, no buttons to press or modes to select, just point to the sky to start exploring. Unique rotation scheme enables touchless navigation even for devices without a compass.
  • Science Apps: website that lists multiple apps